University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1907. University opens for its seventy-first year. Varsity football begins practice at Ferry Field. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. Suspension of Inlander announced. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. Announcement of grant- ing of charter to Michigan by Phi Beta Kappa French club plans dramatic trip to Europe. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. Regents grant Tappan Hall corner to Memorial Building. TUESDAY, OCTOBER i. Fresh-Soph posters make appear- ance on campus. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. Senior lits and engineers an- nounce class tickets. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4. Contract signed with McAllister to coach 1908 varsity baseball team. Freshmen win annual flag rush on Medic Green. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5. Varsity defeats Case 9-0. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6. President Angell delivers annual address to freshmen in University Hall. Michigan Union announces comic opera to be presented in February. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9. Student Council elections held in all departments. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. Senior lits elect ticket headed by George H. Hobart. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. Michigan defeats M. A. C. 46-0. Fall elections in Athletic Association. MONDAY. OCTOBER 14. Railroad Jack makes first ap- pearance on campus in series of popular lectures. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16. First football mass meeting held in University Hall. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. Corbin ' s article in Saturday Evening Post comments favorably on Michigan. (Great excitement.) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. Sickesz opens Choral Union ser- ies. Regents vote to reorganize Athletic Board of Control. Senior Engineers elect ticket headed by H. H. -Frost. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 19. Michigan defeats Wabash at Indianapolis 22-0. Senior laws elect ticket headed by Clyde A. DeWitt. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23.- Michigan Union Banquet committees announced. Interclass football series begins. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24. Sociologists discover 600 hamburgers consumed in Ann Arbor daily. Football mass meeting in U. H. t FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. Governor J. Frank Hanly of Indiana opens Students ' Lecture Association course. Michigan Union announces Michigenda committees headed by W. W. Merritt, ' 08. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. Michigan defeats O. S. U. 22-0 on Ferry Field. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30. Mass meeting in University Hall. Popular subscription gathers funds to send scrubs to Nashville. Class of ' 67 places memorial stone on campus. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. President Angell heads meeting of university presidents at Iowa City. Football team leaves for Nashville. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I. Registration figures announced by Secretary Wade show increase in every department, total of 300. Will reach enrollment of over 5000. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. Michigan defeats Vanderbilt 8-0, at Nashville, Tenn. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3. Rooters hold celebration on return of the team from the South. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. Honor system declared successful in Medic department. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. Football mass meeting held in University Hall. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. John Graham Brooks lectures on S. L. A. course on The Socialist ' s Chal- lenge to Modern Society. Tryouts for Michigenda. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9. Annual fall cross country novice race. Comedy club decide to produce The Recruiting Officer. MONDAY, NOVEMBER II. Hon. D. M. Ferry, Sr., donor of Ferry Field, dies.

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vanquishing in debate both of her most formidable rivals and dearest foes, Northwestern and Chicago, by unanimous decisions. In oratory her record has been quite as proud. No resume of the achievement of this great year would be in the slightest degree complete which did not take especial notice of the doings of the Michigan Union, for its activities even more than those in the dramatic field mark off the year. In November, just before the Pennsyl- vania game it opened its new club house in the remodeled Cooley residence, and began an active campaign for members. The house became an immediate and favorite resort for all sorts of campus gatherings, smokers, and banquets, and has grown in popularity. The membership list has swelled with time until now it is a considerable fraction of the entire male membership of the university. The fourth annual banquet of the Union, given in the gymnasium the night ' before the Pennsylvania game, was by far the largest and most enthusiastic ever held, and boded well for the future of the organization. During most of the winter Union committees were hard at work on the preparation of Michigan ' s first comic opera, Michigenda, and on its production in late February it proved to be the most signal success ever attempted at Michigan. It has opened the way for much larger activities in the future. The Union County Fair, to be held in May, bids fair to reproduce the triumph of the same fair in May, 1905. The Union now seems on the highroad to prosperity, and a place in university affairs which will enlarge its influence and effectiveness more and more. What shall be said in conclusion of the general tone of this wonderful year? To those who watch the trend of events, and who are able to judge from their experiences of the past, it has seemed that the year has been productive of a splendid spirit on the part of student leaders and of the rank and file of the university body. There has seemed to be more of a get-together spirit, more willingness to sacrifice for the general good of the whole. In no other way can we completely account for the enormous amount of unrequited labor which has been expended on such organi- zations as the Union and the Women ' s League. It has manifested itself often in such movements as that for a better class of dramatic productions, of which we have spoken ; the outbreak against politics in the Athletic Association, which has resulted in a much saner attitude toward all politics in general; the attempt to cultivate a sentiment for a dryer Ann Arbor; the movements for residential halls, commons, and the like, which if they have not resulted in something practical, have at least done the service of calling our attention to our urgent needs. Let this then be said in conclusion of the year 1907-1908 now drawing to a close, that it has been a year of progress and uplift for the university in many ways and that it points the way for a future of still brighter possibilities.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. Michigan Daily issues special Union number. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13. Program of toasts for Union banquet announced. Hon. John Barrett speaks for S. L. A. on The New South America. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. Michigan Union clubhouse formally opened. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15. Annual Michigan Union banquet held in the gymnasiums, Hon. Charles A. Towne, ' 81, Toastmaster. Annual C. C. C. handicap race won by G. A. Dull. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16. Pennsylvania defeats Michigan on Ferry Field by a score of 6-0. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18. Regents vote erection of new chemistry building. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19. Senate votes to shorten Christmas and Thanksgiving vacations. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. Dean Reed returns from trip to western universities. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago, speaks before S. L. A. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1910 engineers defeat 1910 laws for interclass football championship by score of 4-0. University debating teams picked in final intersociety contests. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25. Schulz, all-American center, elected captain of 1908 Football team. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. Thanksgiving vacation begins, lasting till December 2. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3. Major Harrison Soule resigns treasurership of the university. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4. Campaign begins against athletic and politic al evils. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. Rev. William J. Dawson lectures on S. L. A. Course on Sir Walter Raleigh. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. Representative meeting results in movement to revise athletic constitu- tion, and to purify politics. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9. Sousa ' s band plays in University Hall on S. L. A. course. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12. Junior Hop committees appointed. Flonzaley Troupe appears on Choral Union series. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13. Cercle Dramatique Fran9ais holds soiree in Sarah Caswell Angell Hall. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14. Regents appoint George S. Baker treasurer of the university. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society begins annual series of meetings. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15. Michigan Daily issues literary supplement. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. Literary faculty establishes new rules governing elections. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18. Woman ' s League announce presentation in February of Sheridan ' s School for Scandal. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. Majestic Theatre opens with Belasco ' s Girl of the Golden West. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. Christmas vacation begins, lasting till January 7, 1908. SATURDAY. JANUARY 4. Western Conference in Chicago acts unfavorably on measures desired by Michigan. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. Mass meeting in University Hall to advocate making Ann Arbor a 4ry town. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. Annual meeting of Association of American Universities and Colleges in Ann Arbor. President Angell elected president of association. SATURDAY, JANUARY n. Question of withdrawing from conference widely discussed, with senti- ment in favor of withdrawal. MONDAY, JANUARY 13. Board of Control votes Michigan ' s withdrawal from Western Conference. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. New Whitney Theatre opens with A Knight for a Day. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17. Michigan wins double victory in debate, over Northwestern in Ann Arbor, and Chicago, at Chicago. SATURDAY, JANUARY 18. Athletic Association holds annual election. MONDAY, JANUARY 20.- Union announces that B. C. Whitney of Detroit will stage Michigenda. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21. Temperance petition goes to Constitutional Convention at Lansing. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. Comedy Club presents Farquhar ' s The Recruiting Officer at the New Whitney. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, AND TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. Professor A. C. McLaughlin lectures on Influence of Political Parties on American History. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. Charles W. Clark, baritone, appears on Choral Union course. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30. Work ends for the first semester. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. First semester examinations do great havoc. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908. Junior Hop held in Waterman Gymnasium. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. Comedy Club gives The Recruiting Officer at the New Whitney. Musical clubs give J Hop concert in University Hall. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9. Students ' Christian Association celebrates semi-centennial in University Hall. Address by Rt. Rev. C. P. Anderson, of Chicago. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10. Second semester begins. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY n. Baseball work begins in the cage, directed by Coach McAllister. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. New system of recording lit bolts carries consternation in the lit de- partment. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17. Lecture on Cercle Franc.ais course by M. Louis Madelin, on L ' lmpera- trice Josephine. Radical changes made by university senate in lit-law course. 10